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print + web iPad + iPhone Best Last week, gay football team Stonewall FC hit the Emirates stadium to play against foot the Arsenal FC Staff and the UK Parliamentary Football Team. Now, there’s forward a threesome nobody ever Photos by Chris Jepson expected to see…
omophobia in football is fans. It’s a lifelong dream for any Arsenal fan, still a taboo that we have myself included, to play on the same pitch as yet to defeat. Players your idols. Week in, week out I go to watch are coming out after Arsenal, but to get changed in the changing they have retired with rooms and walk out the tunnel onto the pitch many people asking the was a feeling like no other. To be there and H question “why is there experience that with all your close friends will not an openly gay man be something that I will never forget. Luckily, in the Premier League?” Stonewall FC is the Chris Jepson was on hand to take pictures so I longest standing and world’s most successful can keep reminding myself!” openly gay football club - welcoming players of Jamie continues: “Our manager, physio, all sexual orientations. players and, of course, the committee who all Jamie Feldman, Treasurer and current player voluntarily dedicate time and effort to this club, for Stonewall FC, is one of many on a mission work so hard every year, so to give them all a to end this latest taboo in football. His latest reward like this was a great feeling. It’s been a We will only beat achievement in doing so was to contact Arsenal long time coming that Stonewall FC gains the FC and create the Arsenal For Everyone Cup. support of such a prestigious club like Arsenal. the battle of The Arsenal For Everyone Initiative covers We will only beat the battle of homophobia all forms of discrimination in football and in football if we get people talking about it. homophobia in attempts to eradicate the barriers to entry The link-up we have created with Arsenal FC football if we get that people believe exist. The Arsenal For will hopefully continue long into the future. )ZIV]SRI'YT[EWXLI½VWXEXXIQTXF]E To also have the added support of the UK people talking Premier league football club to openly show parliamentary team just shows you how much their support for a gay football team and people back the cause.” about it.” by special invitation, the UK Parliamentary The Speaker, Mr John Bercow, who played on Football Team was also invited. the day commented on both the fantastic work The day itself was a tremendous success that Arsenal FC were doing by hosting such a for all involved. Jamie Feldman told QX: “The competition and also his admiration for what excitement amongst the Stonewall FC players Stonewall FC stand for and are about. was evident from the day we announced it back Stonewall FC won the competition itself by in February. We had a limit of 17 players to take beating UKPMFC 3-2 and Arsenal FC Staff to the game and 27 offered themselves to take 2-0, with a special mention going to Marcos the day off work. Eric, our manager, ended up Fernandez, a lifelong Arsenal fan, for scoring a choosing a team that included all the Arsenal goal at the Emirates.
For more information about Stonewall Football Club please go to www.stonewallfc.com or contact [email protected], Facebook/stonewallfc or @stonewallfc
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THE WHO, WHAT, WHY,CARNIVALECA WHERE,RNIVAL WHENE OF GAY LONDON… INFORMERCaféCaféd deeP Paris,aris 3-434 CoCoventryventry Street,Street W1D 6BL6BL Sunday 8th June, 7pm-1am. Tickets: www.jj-events.co.uk/carnivale Table bookings: 07867 650225 ‘Carnivale’ promises an evening of sensual delights that will have you mesmerized, mystified and mortified… Held in a realm of unknown fantasy, Café de Paris, London’s iconic venue, is giving you a mélange of current music provided by DJs Kris di Angelis and Joshyouare, whilst there will be performances by the fantastic likes of Andromeda Circus, Marnie Scarlet, Angelica Kluft and many more. Hosted by Johanna Londinium, Daniel John Lynch, Mitchell Marion and John Murphy, with Master of Ceremonies Tristan Temple.
Johanna Londinium HOME Home House, inaugural Home COMING Coming music event at FESTIVAL Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre Sunday, 1st June 2014 on Sunday 1st June 2014 to from 5pm. benefit the Elton John AIDS Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Foundation, in partnership with London. English luxury mobile phone http://london.ejaf.org/events/ brand, Vertu. The ticket price event/home-coming-festival/ will also include a sumptuous Do you want to see Paloma mix of delicious food & drink Faith, Sophie Ellis-Bextor & including bespoke cocktails from Suggs perform in this summer Grey Goose RSVP, and many, Kris Di Angelis sun? You should attend the many other special acts!
PETS BURN: Moving Images WITH by Cabaret Artists LETS! Sensorama OUTLET4PROPERTY Spectacular www.outlet4property.com Hackney Attic, Hackney Picturehouse, Living and renting in London 270 Mare Street, E8 1HE is hard enough let alone Sunday 1st June, doors 7pm, show should you come with a 7.30pm. £7/5 concs. best friend who happens Box Office: 0871 902 5734 to be a pet… The guys at www.burnlondon.com Outlet know that finding BURN, the platform for moving images by rented accommodation cabaret artists, is back at Hackney Attic for is very hard if you have the latest edition of its monthly residency, with pets, with most landlords not doyenne of lo-fi hi-glam Lorraine Bowen. Plus accepting them through the false belief that they on-screen video amazingness from Bourgeois will damage property. So to encourage landlords to take & Maurice, Christeene, Die Roten Punkte, on more guys and their best friends, Outlet have enlisted EastEnd Cabaret, Paul Kindersley, Scottee, the help of the Dogs’ Trust to go about creating wonderful Tomás Ford and Waxie Moon. And New CVs for pets with references, and policies in the tenancy York writer/musician Joseph Keckler will agreement to put at ease owners’ worries. Look out for be taking a sense spectacular into whole the launch poster on Old Compton Street and they will new dimensions of tongue-in-cheek opera donate £5 to the Dogs’ Trust every time anyone has their psychedelia, looking awesome in goth picture taken with Compton the Pug! drag. A rare London appearance!
4 PRIDE SPORTS DAY WALK FOR LIFE 2014 SPECIAL OFFERS RAINBOW RUN… 5k Sunday 8th June. £7 registration. Preston Park, Brighton www.walkforlife.co.uk Sunday 27th July, £18.50 registration. There is still www.brighton-pride.org time to register Disco divas are asked to get themselves ready for Brighton Pride’s for this year’s fun run and community sports day! Every omi and polone is expected event of the to chuck on some lyrcra and leg warmers and troll along to Preston Walk for Life Park to vada the talented totty and bona bods as they mince around at the above a series of camp courses. Dress for 70s wonder women action, and web address. every 1k grab some extra disco glamour… Registration closes on the The 10km walk 30th June. starts and ends at Bloomsbury Square Gadens, with a circular route that takes in the South Bank, Theatreland and The City. Funds raised go towards the Terrence Higgins Trust’s Hardship Fund, a project that offers small grants to people living with HIV in severe financial need. Anyone who raises more than £100 in sponsorship will also receive a free Walk For Life T-shirt. All adults will receive a medal at the finishing line which they can now use to gain a number of special offers in venues around Soho: Circa, Frith Street: 25% off drinks until 8.00pm East Street Restaurant, Rathbone Place: 50% off total food bill all night G-A-Y Bar, Old Compton Street: Drinks for £1.50 all night Green Carnation, Greek Street: 25% off drinks all night Ku Bar, Frith Street and Lisle Street: First drink free New Bloomsbury Set, Marchmont Street: Selected discounted drinks all night She Bar, Old Compton Street: First drink free The Queen’s Head, Acton Street: 10% off drinks all night
DARRELL BERRY PHOTOGRAPHS 2007-2014 Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA Thursday 1st May – Saturday 31st May, 2014 www.darrell-berry.com Darrell Berry is an East London artist who has been shooting the East London queer scene for many years now, with photos published in Vogue Italia, A Magazine Curated by Riccardo Tisci, Out There and many others. Now you can enjoy all of his work over a seven year period collated together for the first time as part of Tupac Martir’s LOMW Festival at the renowned Rich Mix cinema and arts space in Shoreditch.
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Manbar – Regulated Entertainment license reinstated Manbar has been granted back its entertainment license by those party poopers at Westminster Council and promise a return of all their DJs and entertainers. On Thursday, guest DJs on rotation rock ‘til 3am in Babylon. On Friday it’s Spunk, featuring dance tuneage from Amos, Rob C and Brent Nicholls, while Saturdays serve up Hombre, with Spanish DJ Gretta Gargola, laser shows and more.
Manbar, 79 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0NE. Until 3am, free entry Thursdays, free until 11pm Fri & Sat.
30/05/14: Superqueeroes 30/05/14: STP Welcome to the underworld of East London’s Resistance Dance till you can’t dance no more. Drink till you can’t drink Gallery, where capes and pants are the thing to be seen in, ever again. STP will be playing so many party bangers you’ll uniting all superqueeros in one exploding club night of epic be twerkin’ and booty shakin’ like a party demon, The STP proportions. A polysexual party for all supernatural beings boys serve up hip-hop, R’n'B and pop goodies to cut a rug and superhumans alike, superqueeroes come in all shapes and to in everyone’s favourite Dalston Basement, Vogue fabrics. sizes and the bash invites you to strap on the capes, Lycra, Expect celebrations, T-shirt giveaways and beats courtesy of spandex, belts and boots – or 1MWGLE1EßE. just come as you are. Featuring Wear whatever incredible, outlandish performances you like but leave from some of London’s most the attitude at the impossible artists and DJs, door. expect earth-saving sounds and intergalactic visuals all night long. Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Newington Rd, Resistance Gallery, 265 Poyser Street, Dalston, N16 7XB, Bethnal Green, E2 9RF. 10pm-late. £5. 110pm-3am.0pm-3am. £5.£5.
30/05/14: G-A-Y Camp Attack starring FiFiveve SStartar lead singer DENISE PEARSON Denise Pearson is a Brit award winner, Grammy nominee and lead singersinger with iconic pop group, Five Star. Five Star had over 20 top tthirtyhirty UK singles including ‘System Addict’, ‘The Slightest Touch’ and the anthemm ‘Rain Or Shine’ anandd EVIXLI½VWXKVSYTXSEGLMIZIGSRWIGYXMZILMXWMRKPIWJVSQSRRIEPFYQMRXLI9/IEPFYQMRXLI9/ Denise’s debut solo album, ‘Imprint’ is set for release on the 11stst JJune,une, aloalongng with the single ‘Free Fall’ and what better way to launch it than at GG-A-Y-A-Y Camp Attack.
Heaven, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NG. 11pm-4am. FREE entry wristbandsbands from G-A-Y Bar.
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Heaven, Villiers Street, WC2H 6NG. 10.30pm-5am.
31/05/14: XXL Retro Step back in time with everyone’s favourite night of friendly bears, cute cubs and OTT otters as Pulse pumps out the house sounds FSXLJVIWLERHGPEWWMGJSVE&ERO,SPMHE]FEWLXSVIQIQFIV;MXLEQEWWMZIKEVHIRLYKIEVIREWERHEQIKEGVYMWIJSV]SY½PXLMIV fellas, expect resident DJs Christian M, Alex Logan, Andy Almighty and more to blow your mind, tickle your nipples and get XLIJYVVMIW¾]MRK
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C East Bloc, 217 City Road, Shoreditch, EC1V 1JN. 10.30pm-6am. £7 before midnight, £9 after.
31/05/14: JagerNacht (‘Hunt Night’) It’s hunting season at Eagle London this Satur- day! Bears, cubs, otters, pandas and all in be- tween watch out because predatory huntsman are looking to make you their trophy catch. Hosted by our Sex Entertainment Manager Alan Stuart (there’s a creative job title for the CV for you!) the Eagle will be transformed into a maze of male-on-male primal pleasures. 8LMWMWXLISJ½GMEPPEYRGLTEVX]JSVSYVEPPRI[ men-only midweek Cruise Control (Monday- Thursday, 9pm-late). Free shots of Jagermeister Eduardo Herrera to get this friendly hunt in full swing. R18 resident Eduardo Herrera will be laying HS[RXLI½PXL]FIEXWERHXEOMRKYWSRUYMXIE journey with a specially extended DJ set.
Eagle London, 349 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 5QY. 9pm-4am. £6 includes drink and coat check.
31/05/14: Zig Zag Samstag A one of a kind London party featuring a carnival of techy sounds. Homos, beardy boys, freaks, geeks, friends, and Greg Lowe lovers are invited to a magical world of wild fun in deepest darkest Bethnal Green. Expect a colourful mix of sexy house, twerky tech house, and big room Craig Campbell techno under the arches. So, all you hot and sleazy boys and girls come on down for some dark and hedonistic Berlin- inspired fun. DJs Craig Campbell and Greg LoweTVSZMHILMKLUYEPMX] contemporary tunes with a trippy techno edge (and a few old favourites).
Resistance Gallery, 5-7 Poyser Street, Bethnal Green, E2 9RF. 9pm-late. £3 before 10pm, £5 after.
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12 CLUB PREVIEW The TrueBloodParty 23rd –‘VAMPIREDISCO’ With guests 16th –‘PANDORA’ Featuring: BrazilianSinger 9th –‘BRAZILBRAZIL’WORLDCUPSPECIAL 7[IIXHVMTTMRK¾EZEWJVSQ(.W 2nd -‘HONEYTRAP’ Heaven, VilliersStreet,WC2N6NG.11pm-5.30am.DiscountwristbandsfromG-A-YBar 6SSQMX W(IIT 8IGL,SYWI FIEXWSRXLIQEMR¾SSV,MT,ST 62&MR6SSQ6SSQ[MXL4S There’s awholemontho’funtobehadonMondaynightsatPopcorn!FeaturingtheADMandprogressive Every Monday:POPCORN Munroe Bergdorf Elaine Paige JonathanBestley Jonathan Bestley Ester Campos Adam Turner
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10pm-3am 10pm-3am £5 £5 HANDMADE MEMBERS TOP 10 1. ‘THE TRUE STORY OF A DETROIT GROOVE’ - BMG & DEREK PLASLAIKO Real Detroit gem. 2. ‘DESOLATE CITIES’ - 2AM / FM Acid house at it’s best. 3. ‘NITROGEN’ - SAVAS PASCALIDIS
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XXL: BEARPRIDE 2014 24/05/14 WORDS BY Pulse, 1 Invicta Plaza, TOM REDKID Southwark, SE1 9UF PHOTOS BY MARK STOREY
WHAT A BEARTASTIC time to be alive! Bear-ded tranny wins Eurovision, Prince Charles gets Bearish with a Russian bully bear and an NFL footbear comes out at the start of his career instead of at the end. And it’s only May! To celebrate these milestones, Big Bear Mark Ames threw the whole damn pot o’ honey into the woods and let the herd loose in a Saturday night tug- n-hug in aid of MildMay HIV charity. Otters, cubs, wolves, silverbacks and a few Bigfoots let their (back) hair down and shook that bowl full o’ jelly 'til it turned into jam. DJs Mr. Ames, Christian M., Stuart Styles, Joe Egg, Andy Almighty and Cathill seared their brand onto grade ‘A’ beef packing every steer in the pen onto 3 dance floors in a 12-hour party! Q-Cleaners owner and philanthropist Carlos Feitoza and fashion photographer bf Dan had “the time of their lives”, especially Dan at his first-time among the wolfpack. Leather, denim and fur expert, designer Jean-Paul Gautier and friend popped in from his current Barbican exhibition to pick up some fashion tips for the plus-sized male. “Flannel? Merci, non!” Our li’l Goldilocks ate from every bowl of porridge, each one just right. When our tummies were full we chillaxed on the super-sized sofas in the ambient day-glo of grandma’s house. “My Granny, what a big bulge you have!” Feeling peckish, we ventured into the gingerbread house in the woods and nibbled on some toasty gingerbread men, warm and moist from the oven, yum! (I found a couple hairs in mine but who’s complaining!) Bearpride! Fashionistas! XXL has outdone itself!
16 FITS & GIGGLES 10/04/13 Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, SE11 5HY
17 Conchita Wurst @ G-A-Y Heaven 24/5/14 WORDS BY Heaven, under the YAFEU-KHAMISI Arches, Villiers Street, RODWAY-BROWN Charing Cross, PHOTOS BY WC2N 6NG CHRIS JEPSON
THIS YEAR’S EUROVISION winner has quickly come to represent so much more than just her native Austria in the continent’s most unapologetically gauche talent show since globally televised talent shows began. Conchita Wurst’s win is thought to both embody and champion liberal thinking and acceptance in a 21st century Europe over more regressive sentiments taking stronghold of late behind the old ‘Iron Curtains’. So, it was natural that London’s LGBT crowd were out in no small measure to celebrate the coming of ‘The Bearded Lady’ to superclub Heaven’s main floor last Saturday. Like a pheonix, Ms. Wurst rose from the wings in a cutaway black gown and canary heels to the roar of the boys and girls cramming the big room. From ‘Rise Like A Pheonix’, her winning number, to ‘My Heart Will Go On’ - Conchita climaxed the night with soaring ballads and Mariah-esque arm gestures to boot. Naturally, Ms. Wurst was hardly the shy and retiring type, and any admirers wanting a picture and a chat after her star turn could find her in the VIP room - more than ready to mingle. So it was, this year, a true vision indeed for Europe!
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SEPM 25/05/14 East Bloc, 217 City Road, WORDS BY Shoreditch, EC1V 1JN TOM REDKID PHOTOS BY MARK STOREY
THE BEST REVOLUTIONS begin underground and East Bloc’s SEPM cranked up the juice and zapped a shockwave that rippled through Old Street to jump start the Bank holiday weekend. Basso & Brooke went b2b with Lucious Flajore creating a dreamy garden for the kiddies to romp. “I only play when the mood is right. When I feel it then the crowd feels it. I do it for the love!” Humpy graphic designer Ricky G was on hand to support the lovely Lucious and Basso & Brooke. In the back room Sink the Pink’s Daisy Confused entertained with her tripped-out butts to nuts tunes for a date rape. Scott Whippy did what his moniker implies and whipped us into a Friday-night frenzy. Attack Attack Attack put a cherry on top of his usual ample servings of heaping helpings of electro-bass flavoured dance trance with Dylan Walsh premiering AAA’s new summer release 'Lose Yourself', and oh how we did. Larry Tee and Gallack found us right where we lost ourselves and kept us warm and fuzzy. Speaking of fuzzy, that rare bird, FiFi LaTrue “beautified an ostrich” before she swanned in fresh from her world tour. Jimmy B, a fresh daisy came straight from work and “didn’t even bother to change clothes.” I’m sure McDonald’s won’t mind as long as you wash the uniform by Tuesday. In the back-back room a private bday party for a very lucky bday boy Jack Howell “cuz I need a new leather jock strap and lycra spandex” had all the booty-ful people bumping booty 'til dawn.
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MANBAR 24/05/14 79 Charing Cross Road, Soho, WC2H 0NE WORDS AND PHOTOS BY CHRIS JEPSON
AFTER A COSTLY court case fighting a tiresome neighbour, last week Manbar were given their entertainment license back just in time for the Spring bank holiday, and celebrated with a whole raft of ‘Turn Me Up’ parties. We trotted down on Saturday for ‘Hombre’ the official pre-party for Absolutely Juicy with fond memories of the Andrew Harris original Juicy parties ‘back in the day’ wafting around in our grey cell depleted crania. The delightful DJ Gretta was on hand with a whole box of commercial and the latest house tunes interspersed with her stepping out from behind the decks for some camp performance. Manbar is a welcoming haven for an eclectic mix of hirsute hotties starting a big night out, twinks having a pre-Conchita cocktail and those just out for a pint and a chinwag with mates, and we are delighted to have it back on our rosta of late night hangouts.
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BEARTACULAR 23/05/14 The RVT 372 Kennington Lane, WORDS AND PHOTOS BY Vauxhall, SE11 5HY CHRIS JEPSON
LONDON GREW some fur and went grrrr last week as Bearfest events popped up all over the place. Def one of our faves was the full-on, 5-star (not the 80s pop group) theatrical extravaganza that was Beartacular at the RVT. Hosted by the über fabulous ‘What do you think you’re looking at faggot?’ Jonny Woo, a plethora of paws-in-the-air performers paraded across the hallowed boards for a capacity crowd. ‘Dave the Bear’, clearly the Miley Cyrus of the bear scene, gave us his best twerking carwash strip complete with soap suds dripping off his hot little basket. The Dream Bears twirled and sashayed to Lady Marmalade and Nigel Murfit crooned a bit of Take That and Lion King before the little pocket rocked Edgar Trujillo turned up the heat with his fiery escapades that raised a bit of a sweat on all of us. And just to show bears have hearts, too, 12 of them bared all in their underwear for a charity auction in aid of Ben Cohen’s anti- bullying StandUp Foundation. An aptly named Beartacular indeed.
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FAIRY BEARY+ MACHO SLUTS WORDS BY 26/05/14 TOM REDKID East Bloc, 217 City Road, PHOTOS BY Shoreditch, EC1V 1JN MARK STOREY
WE DESCENDED upon Shoreditch’s hallowed basement of laser lights and burning beats for a different sort of night to the norm – Fairy Beary! As part of Bearfest 2014, it pulled some of the sexiest and most muscled hairy guys in the city into the ‘Bloc to growl and grr and huh-huh-honey! We were in our dreamland baby, and we woke up with a Macho Slut at EastBloc, around six to be exact: Per QX, Done & Dusted (Alan X/Lewis Lenin). Andrew Moore, Ray Noir and Ursula Snakes all joined forces to give the Bank Hols one last kick in da rump to close out the weekend with a banger! Hardest working manager in town Wayne, takin-none- o’-yo-shit Diego, and the whole crew kept not only Monday morn Macho Sluts but the entire weekend trippin tidy for every kid on the block. Main Room dynamic duo Done & Dusted swirled some deep, “happy filthy spacey grooves” as biggie Alan X tagged it. Then Per QX, doin' double duty from Guttersluts, grabbed the wheel and swerved that car right off the road into the abyss and had us freefallin' weightless for all eternity. Other ‘sluts from the Gutter’ hobbled in on their broken heels and bruised knees to add some class with a capital ‘K’ to the day. Bernie and Charlie dragged their post- nuclear Metropolis meltdown to the EB cellar to have one last blow-out with the few remaining survivors before starvation and cannibalism set in. Salome, aka Ms. Charlie, danced her shorts down to her ankles and didn't even know it til she did a catwalk spin and her brows and balls hit the floor so fast I
26 thought the Pope had just walked in! Huddled in the back room Andrew Moore filled us with hopeful funk-bop and Ursula Snakes kept our weary spirits alive with her own brand of hyper-happy ceiling-shakers. But, of course, who else would you expect to find at the apocolypse feasting on the dead and not-yet-dead? DJ Ray Noir! Like black smoke, his dark rock tattooed cock turned a ship o’ fools into a groove tomb making the end of the world seem pretty damn cool. We opened the hatch Mon aftenoon, clambered out, zombies re-born--- and hungry!
27 MATINÉE 25/05/14 Ministry of Sound, 103 Gaunt Street, SE1 6DP WORDS AND PHOTOS BY CHRIS JEPSON
THE THING WE love about continental clubbing is that most of them have a terrace that enables you to top up your tan whist dancing with a hottie in shorts. Sadly here in London those opportunities are few and far between as most of our venues are not set up that way and our weather is a little too unpredictable to plan an al fresco shindig. On Sunday though the gods smiled down on the gays and sent warming rays to light up the Matinee Terrace Party at the Ministry of Sound giving an Ibiza feel that had the boys shucking their shirts quicker than you could say DSquared sale. Superstar DJ Ivan Gomez joined Tony English, Michel Mizrahi and Fabio Luigi outside, while the pale skinned Lee Harris stayed indoors with Gonzalo and Mike Dower on the Society decks, and while the inside dance floor was packed, it was clearly all about the terrace which was rammed to capacity with hot flesh as scantily clad dancers cavorted on a purpose built stage and cooling CO2 cannons blasted across the crowd. The London season is officially OPEN.
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HORSE MEAT DISCO 25/05/14 The Eagle, 349 WORDS BY Kennington Lane, TOM REDKID Vauxhall, SE11 5QY PHOTOS BY JOEL RYDER
HORSE MEAT DISCO on a bank holiday, can there be any sweeter combo? If there is I don’t wanna know! All the gang came to play and more than a few newbies and some devilsh hotties packed out “Studio 54 on Kennington Lane” in what has to be the friendliest, liveliest club this side of Manhattan and Ibiza all rolled into one big hug. All this is down to manager Simon and owner Mark who never stop working all night on the scene. When most such men are nowhere to be found these guys are in the mix shaking hands pullin' pints keepin things happy 'n' hoppin'. “You gotta love what ya do!” Mark quips as he jets from front door to back garden all smiles. Keeping us smiling on the dance floor were res Horsey wrangler DJs Severino, Stanton and special guest Tasty Tim: “In a word -‘Fab’ (well, half a word is better than none.) Stanton has me on once every decade so maybe I’ll be back in 2024.” Jerry Miskolinko, first-time Horsey, long-time hottie, came all the way from Slovenia just for HMD! “I knew about it for long time and finally came here!” And did it live up to expectations? He threw down some sexy shirtless shapes 'neath the disco ball and exclaimed, “BEST music, BEST pub, BEST ever! I was born in the wrong decade!” Nope Jer, you were born at exactly the right time--now! Big brothers Ian, Ben and their kin chose HMD for their family. “We all live in London. Makes perfect sense to have it here.” FWBs Dennis, Karl and Ben added some muscle- soaked dance moves to liven up the queue at the bar. Gatekeeper Omar summed it all up nicely: “we’re all disco dancers and rhthym makers.”
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So when Halloween a wave of love came over me. :EQTMVI7PE]IVMREWOMVXXLEXNYWXGSZIVIH came around, hosting downstairs was Q]FEPPWERHWXSSHSRWXEKI[SRHIVMRK[L] MQTIVEXMZI(VIWWIHEWE^SQFMIXVERR] 2MGO&]EQ¯(SSV;LSVI IZIV]FSH][EWKE[TMRKEXQI 8LI 1MW½XWWX&MVXLHE]³:SKYI&EPP´MWEX)EWX &PSG 'MX]6SEH7LSVIHMXGL)':.2 SR;IHRIWHE]XL.YRI 2YRS(SQMRKYIW 2EWXII1G5YEMH 32 CENTRAL STATION 37 Wharfdale Road, King’s Cross, N1 9SD Central Station looks set to be sizzling this weekend as only Ima Castro herself takes XSGIRXVIWXEKISR*VMHE]XL1E][MXLXLI Castro on stage at 9.30pm and free entry. 8LIRSR7EXYVHE]WX1E]XLIVI´WXLIKVIEX Davina Sparkle totally treading those boards for your laughs and entertainment! On HALFWAY TO HEAVEN stage at 9.30pm, with free entry. 7 Duncannon Street, Charing Cross, Ima Castro WC2N 4JF It’s looking like a huge weekend at Charing Cross’s resident jewel in London’s cabaret crown, Halfway to Heaven. On Friday 30th ]SY´PP½RH1MWWMyra Dubois holding her fabulous ‘Friday Night Live!’ from 9pm with special guest of the evening, Martha THE QUEBEC D’Arthur3R7EXYVHE]WX]SY´PP½RH 12 Old Quebec Street, W1H 7AF Rose Garden’s Saturday Market One of London’s most venerable and always ever- Swap Shop from 4pm, followed by swinging gay institutions, The Quebec has held Bears Downstairs with Justin Swift GSYVXEX1EVFPI´W%VGLJSVQER]]IEVWERHPSSOW JVSQ TQ%RHXLIR½RMWLXLMRKWSJJ[MXL set to do so for the foreseeable future! Plus, to The Return of CK Sunday on Sunday add to the party mega-mix, it draws in some of 1st June from 4pm. the very best of London’s cabaret artistes for entertainment each Sunday, with Sunday 1st June WIIMRKXLEX½PXL]XSRKYIHLMPEVMSYWSandra taking to the stage! Get stuck in! Sandra TWO BREWERS 114 Clapham High Street, SW4 7UJ 8LYVWHE] XL1E]WIIWGEFEVIXEVXMWXII\XVESVHMREMVI from foreign climes, the immense Lady Imelda XEOIXSXLIWXEKIEXSRISJ'PETLEQ´W½RIWX cabaret haunts, The Two Brewers, with entry free before 10pm and £3 after. The Drag With No Myra Dubois Name takes over on Friday 30th (entry free before 10pm, £6) for games, giggles and songs a-plenty, whilst Saturday 31st sees the legend that is Cassidy Connors all over your face and up in your ears, with entry free before 10pm and £7 after. Then why not wind down the weekend with Lady Imelda the ever-fantastic Power of 3 on Sunday 1st June? Free before 8pm, £4 after. CIRCA 62 Frith Street, Soho, W1D 3JN It’s well-established in the land of Queershire that Thursdays are the new Fridays... and Soho is the place to be seen in! Start the weekend early at Circa with the buffest boys, hottest tracks and sassiest fashorn drags swinging their Prada handbags every Thursday night. Three of London’s freshest young music pumpers, Munroe Bergdorf, Adam Turner and Jonathan Bestley (pictured, left to right), spin the sexiest call-in-sick-to-work Friday beats until 1am, and there’s discount entry to La Harsh’s den of muscleistas and cutting edge club kids, Room Service, exclusively at Circa. 34 BAR NEWS ´ #QXGayLondon by Jason Reid Email: [email protected] We start this week by sending congratulations and best wishes to 2012 Drag Idol winner La Voix[LSLEWQEHIMXXLVSYKLXSXLIPMZIWIQM½REPW of Britain’s Got Talent. You can watch her perform for a place in this year’s Grand Final on Saturday (31st) from 7pm on ITV1. Knock ‘em dead, love! Back in Drag Idol land, last week at the Admiral Duncan’s third heat, RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Michelle Visage made a surprise appearance, cheering on the judges and acts. It was The Bear Did Lady who won the heat with a rousing and commanding set. On Thursday The Two Brewers, who have won the competition three times, chose Doctor Woof as their Heat Final winner. He describes his act as “Diana Dors meets Sally Bowles, in the middle of a farmyard on a spaceship”. The Doctor decided to enter this year after being encouraged to do so by fellow Idol competitor The Bear Did Lady. Here are the rest of last week’s winners... Dusty Springs: Halfway to Heaven (Heat Four) Chamoney Aspen: Central Station (Heat One) Bambi Violet/Juliet Harris: Golden Cross, Cardiff (Heat Four) Bambi Boo: George and Dragon (Heat Two) Gia Massacre: Charles Street, Brighton This week’s heats are as follows... Thursday 29th Tuesday 3rd June OGeorge and Dragon, OQueen’s Court, Leeds, from Greenwich (Heat Three), 8.30pm. from 9.30pm. Hosted by The OCentral Station (Heat Final), Duchess. from 9.30pm. Hosted by Jason OForbidden Fruit, Hastings Prince. (Heat Final), from 9pm. Hosted by Son of a Tutu. Wednesday 5th Friday 30th OThe White Hart, Wolverhampton (Heat Final), OCalifornia Inn, from 8pm. Hosted by Barbie Luton, from 9.30pm. Kruger and Tilly. OAdmiral Duncan (Heat Final), from 9pm. Hosted by Son of a Tutu. There are literally a handful of heats left before the Semi Finals in Birmingham and London get underway so if you want to enter this is your last call. Swing by or ring the venue and register your interest. ,EWR´XMX¾S[RF]# Keep up to date with all the gossip by following me (not in a dirty rain mac through Hyde Park way) on Twitter @JasonReidUK. RUPERT STREET 23/05/14 50 RUPERT STREET, SOHO, W1D 6DR WORD AND PHOTOS BY CHRIS JEPSON SUMMER HAS CLEARLY started at Rupert Street cus last Friday night was scorching. Outside the conducive balmy temperatures meant al fresco drinking was HI½RMXIP]SRXLI menu whilst inside %PIWWERHVS[EWSR½VI on the decks with a pre club soundtrack to get our motors started for the bank holiday weekend, the bar boys in their muscle vests were dripping testosterone and the crowd was as delicious a mix as you would get on any ½RIHMRMRKFYJJIX8LIJYRERHJVSPMGW[IVIR´XGSRXEMRIH to just the one night though, oh no, as Brent Nicholls, Rich B and DJ Gretta all gave it large over XLI[IIOIRHQEOMRKMX7SLS´WTEVX] central every day. 38 BAR NEWS ´ THE QUEBEC 25/05/14 12 OLD QUEBEC STREET, W1H 7AF WORDS BY TOM REDKID PHOTOS BY JOEL RYDER AFTER A HARD weekend partying like rock stars, Courtney Love- style, these days, veteran knights and a few squires who’ve seen more than their fair share of bank hols grabbed a vino, kicked back, put their loafers up and had a right ol larf with fellow baldie, Lizzie Drip and her many wigs. Our gal Liz, lip-sang and joked her way through her multi-character show with Dolly, Cher, Shirley, Diana ERHSRIYRJSVXYREXIHSK%PEYKL½PPIHWIX %PWSSRLERHXSLERHSYXWSQINYMG]VEJ¾ITVM^IW were huggable friendly stout development co- ordinator Nick Maxwell and dead serious volunteer Adrian Tighe of charity AgeUK’s Opening Doors London Project which provides services for the senior LGBT community. Lucky winners received everything from Pizza Express vouchers to Mamma Mia XMGOIXW1EREKIV'LVMW7QMXLERH the cutest barmen this side of Oxford Street served a super-packed house crammed to the door: “We love the bank hols and Lizzie has a huge following.” We drank, sang, won prizes and PEYKLIHXMPSYVFVMHKIWJIPPSYX%PPMR EPPEVMKLXSPFEROLSP5YIFIGWX]PI For more info about AgeUK contact: openingdoorslondon.org.uk 40 CABARET ´ 77D DDuncannon Street,St t t ChCharingh i C Cross WC WC2NWC2N.C2N 020 7484 0736 Thursdays & Mondays FRI 30TH MAY SAT 31ST MAY KEVIN WALSH BACKING THE STARS @ 8pm Friday 30th May IMA CASTRO COOKIE MONSTER Friday Night LIVE! Hosted by Hosted by DJ Matt Unique DJ Jason Prince With MYRA DUBOIS On stage 9.30pm FREE ENTRY before 10pm with special guest FREE ENTRY all night on stage at 11pm FRI 6TH JUNE SAT 7TH JUNE MARTHA D'ARTHUR- from 9pm (open 'til 3am) Saturday 31st May ROSE GARDEN DRAG WITH SATURDAY MARKET KAREN DALTON NO NAME 'SLASH' SWOP SHOP 9.30pm 11pm @ 4pm followed by ENJOY OUR BEARS DOWNSTAIRSNSTAIRS with JUSTIN SWIFT Playing 'til 3am ROOF TERRACE Sunday 1st June THE RETURN OF CK SUNDAY @ 4pm followed by AN EVENING WITH MRS MOORE & TANYA HYDE ( open 'til 11pm) Tuesday 3rd June SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Promotion Evenings hosted by BETTE RINSE from 8pm Friday 30th 9pm Saturday 31st from 10.30pm Break dancers, drinks promotions, Wednesday 4th June free samples and more! COME MIME WITH ME with MITZI MACINTOSH from 9pm. www.facebook.com/HalfwaytoHeaven www.halfway2heaven.net TWENTY QUESTIONS! )ZIV]SRI´WLIEVHXLEXSPHTLVEWI±;LEXMWXLMWX[IRX]UYIWXMSRW#²FERHMIHEFSYX [LIRWSQISRIMWFIMRKWYTIVRSWI]VMKLX#;IPPSYV.EWSR6IMH-7XLEXWSQISRI ERHXLIVI´WRSXLMRKLIPMOIWQSVIXLEREKSSHSPHTVSFMRK7SXLMW[IIO[IWIRX LMQSJJXS½VIX[IRX]UYIWXMSRWSJLMWVERHSQGLSSWMRKEXX[SXEPIRXIH]SYRK GEFEVIXUYIIRW(MZMRE(I'EQTSERH1EV]1EG by Jason Reid -J]SYGSYPHFVMRKMRSRIRI[PE[[LEX[SYPHMXFI# One that prohibits people from touching my face. 8LI[SVWXQSZMI]SY´ZIIZIVWIIR# Leprechaun, starring Jennifer Anniston. Divina De Campo ;LEXUYEPMXMIWHS]SYXLMROMX´WMQTSVXERXJSVE performer to possess? Why did you go into drag? Grit, thick skin and humility. You gotta use what you got in this life, and I’m gorgeous. %X[LEXEKIHMH]SYWXEVXTIVJSVQMRK# (IWGVMFI]SYVEGXMR½ZI[SVHW About 4, in shows at school. Voice, camp, silly, amazing, prizes. =SYVFIWXQEOIYTXMT ;LEX´WXLI[SVWXXLMRKEFSYXFIMRKEHVEKUYIIR# Cheap base, cheap face. People thinking they can and should touch you. Especially -J]SYGSYPHKIXWSQIXLMRKFEGOJVSQXLITEWXXLEX my face. NO! ]SYPSWX[LEX[SYPHMXFI# Put these in order of importance to you: A necklace my mum bought me for my 18th birthday. HERGIWMRKPEYKLHVMRO ;LEXEHZMGI[SYPH]SYKMZIXSRI[EGXWEFSYX Sing, laugh, dance, drink. freezing onstage? ;SYPH]SYIZIVHSEVIEPMX]8:WLS[#-JWS Have a plan, always have a plan [LMGLSRI# What inspires you? I’ve done Britain’s Got Talent, but let’s face it, reality TV is as Beauty. far from reality as you can get. ;SYPH]SYIRXIV(VEK-HSPEKEMR# -J]SYGSYPHPMZIMREHIGEHIJVSQXLITEWX½JX]]IEVW Probably not. I’m working too much as it is, and I hate competitions - [LMGL[SYPH]SYGLSWI# they destroy me. 1970s - love the fashion. Less is more or more, more, more? Your biggest strength as a performer is? More, more, MORE! Variety. -J]SYGSYPHFIWSQISRIIPWIJSVEHE][LS[SYPH]SYFI# 3REWGEPISJLS[RIVZSYWHS]SYKIXFIJSVI Hmmm, probably Liza Minnelli. I mean, what the fuck actually goes on performing? in her head? [laughs] 2. What’s your biggest ambition? 'EXGL(MZMRE(I'EQTSEX;IWX 4STI´W0ERI)EPMRK To keep working until I die. SR*VMHE]XL1E] Mary Mac it the same colour as your face [laughs] 1-10? ;LS[EWXLI½VWXIZIVHVEKUYIIR 9. ;LEX´W]SYVHI½RMXMSRSJETIVJIGX ]SYWE[TIVJSVQ# ;LMGL½PQ[SYPH]SYPMOIXSWII day? Lily Savage, on TV. turned into a musical? Watching Jeremy Kyle with a cuppa and some What’s the strangest thing someone Hocus Pocus. custard creams, then a stroll with my puppy LEWWEMHXS]SYEJXIVEWLS[# What angers you? Apple, followed by a bit of a gossip and then “Wow, so you actually are Scottish!?” Small minded people. either performing onstage or going to the ;LEXHVMZIW]SY# Put these in order of importance to theatre in the evening. I’ve always wanted to perform in ]SY 8:QYWMGFSSOWQSZMIW Put these in order of importance to any aspect of theatre/cabaret; Music, TV, books and movies. ]SY WMRKPEYKLHERGIHVMRO the feeling is like nothing else Name someone in the public 3FZMSYWP]WMRK½VWX8LIRPEYKLHVMROERH and each time I do, it makes eye you admire? dance. me want to do it again and Graham Norton. 8LI[SVWXXLMRKEFSYX*EGIFSSOMW again. =SYLEZIXLVII[MWLIW The fear when someone tags you in a photo Would you enter +S and you worry where it was from and whether E&VMXMWLZIVWMSRSJ 1. For Spanx to be more your weave was nice or not that night. 6Y4EYP´W(VEK6EGI# comfortable. 2EQISRIMXIQ]SYGSYPHR´XPMZI No. 2. To get no hangover from vodka. [MXLSYX# 3RITMIGISJEHZMGI]SY´HKMZI 3. To have my own theatre with drag on the My iPhone. Total Twitter addict! XS(VEK-HSPGSRXIWXERXW# bill all year round. ;LEX[EWXLI½VWXEPFYQ]SYIZIV It’s a very fun job for the hour or so you are 7GSXXMWLMRHITIRHIRGI#%]ISVREI# bought? onstage but it’s also a tough industry and you I’d say whichever way it goes I’ll still be The Smurfs Party... on CASSETTE! have to be willing to put in the work offstage strutting about Soho in my tartan, belting out 1SWXSZIVVEXIHGIPIFVMX]MR]SYV too. Lulu until they catch me and pack me off home opinion? Who’s the most important person in on the Megabus to Glasgow. Joey Essex. your life? =SYVFIWXQEOIYTXMT My mum. 1EV]1EGLSWXW³1EWXIVQMRH´EX Remember your neck is there and try to make ,S[EQFMXMSYWEVI]SYSREWGEPISJ ;IWXIZIV];IHRIWHE] 42 REVIEW: MUSIC NEWS ARTS a pubescent boy falling for one another. And there is much debate to be provoked on how far we But is it should police the sexuality and agency of teenagers. In my review of Alexander’s Choice, I mentioned sweetie? the case of teacher Jeremy Forrest Drescher Derek Photo: who ran off with his 15-year-old girl lover, a case that appears BY PATRICK CASH mentioned in the programme of Ashley Cousins as Sandel and Joseph Lindoe as David this play. But then the girl there quite clearly had breasts; she had However, as it is presented upon the body of a woman. THEATRE the stage, the Oxford student It is odd then that in both SANDEL David Rogers (a solid Ryan Penny) Alexander’s Choice and Sandel the Above the Stag Theatre, Miles Street, Vauxhall, SW8 1SF is depicted to be attracted to teenager in question is painted Running until 14th June. Tues-Sat, 7.30pm; Sun, 6pm. £12-18. Antony Sandel because he is a very vividly as having reached www.abovethestag.com / www.sandeltheplay.com boy and not a man; at one point sexual, but not physical, maturity. Cawte delivers a line making They still look like children. And explicit the lack of hair on his ultimately, surely this is the very body. Admittedly, later the boy is saddest element of pederasty – SANDEL IS A staging of Angus E½RIXMKLX[MVI shown to have grown, but Rogers’ that a relationship built on this Stewart’s cult novel depicting the Such is the case of art that previous love for a younger boy at aesthetic physicality is a thing of relationship between a nineteen- it should challenge social his school – forever immortalised transience. Boys, inevitably, will year-old student and a fourteen- boundaries, but those social in precarious adolescence within always grow up. year-old choirboy. Adapted and boundaries are sometimes a photograph – which haunts the Yet, as a theatrical production directed by Glenn Chandler, it invested with an emotional truth. gaps in this new bond, suggests the Sandel was eminently engaging to FIRI½XWJVSQERMRXIPPMKIRXWGVMTX The physical separation of the ephemeral rather than the lasting. watch, and as art, it provoked and [IPP¾IWLIHSYXGLEVEGXIVWERH FS]WMRUYIWXMSRSJ½ZI]IEVWMW Presumably Sandel, in its novel questioned social mores. as has become par-de-course hardly relevant in terms of an JSVQ[EWERMR¾YIRGIYTSR with the Stag, excellent acting – extended relationship – if this Alexander’s Choice, a self-published particularly in the case of Tom was to last a decade, no one book QX was sent to review last To read the review of Alexander’s Cawte as the eponymous Antony would blink at a 24-year-old and a year, which holds much the same Choice, visit: www.qxmagazine.com/ Sandel. However, morally, it treads 29-year-old together in Soho. central plot; a young man and blog-event/alexanders-choice/ FILM OF THE WEEK THEY’RE BACK! VENUS IN FUR The entire casts from both the (15) original trilogy and First Class As he did with are back for X-MEN: DAYS Carnage, Roman OF FUTURE PAST, a brainy Polanski adapts a time-travel thriller with the play to the screen plot of The Terminator and a in riveting, expertly lot of provocative subtext. It’s BY PATRICK CASH staged style. There are overcrowded, but great fun too. BY JACK LEGER only two characters: a hapless theatre director (Mathieu Amalric) and a sassy actress (Emmanuelle Seigner) who’s auditioning for his play, based on the 1870 MUST-SEES IN THE WORKS RSZIPXLEXMRZIRXIH7 18LMWMWXSYVHIJSVGIGMRIQE½IVGIP]I\TPSVMRK art and culture in ways that leave your head spinning. Don’t miss it. 3RISJXLIFIWX½PQWSJXLI Now that’s better: Edgar year, micro-budget Brit- Ramirez has replaced com DOWNHILL is an Gerard Butler as the DVD OF THE WEEK improvised road trip across WYV½RKWO]HMZMRKFERO England with zippy dialog and robber in the Point Break TRUTH (15) great characters, including VIQEOI%RHDave This slow-burning gay psycho- ELMPEVMSYWKE]SRI%RH Franco (James’ even thriller stars Sean Paul Lockhart Oscar-nominated OMAR hotter little brother) will (aka pornstar Brent Corrigan) as tells the story of a young play an assassin who goes a gay loner who mets his dream Palestinian guy whose life is YRHIVGSZIVEWEPE[½VQ man (played by director Rob derailed by heavy-handed temp in the action-comedy Moretti) on a phone app. But both Israeli agents. The Intern’s are hiding big secrets. While the Utterly Handbook. ½PQWXVEMRWXSFYMPHWYWTMGMSRERH essential. suspense, the central relationship is earthy and very sexy. And the X[MWX]WYVTVMWMRK½REPEGXQEOIW up for some cheesy melodrama and moralising. (TLA) 44 LONDON’S BIGGEST SAUNA GROUP SHOREDITCH I FAIRCHILD ST, EC2A 3NS LIVERPOOL STREET STATION SHOREDITCH STATION VAUXHALL RAIL ARCHES, 63-64 ALBERT EMBANKMENT SE1 7TP VAUXHALL STATION WATERLOO 101 LOWER MARSH, SE1 7AB WATERLOO STATION LIMEHOUSE 574 COMMERCIAL RD, E14 7JD Big ‘n’ Cuddly every Monday, all day session for big blokes and their admirers LIMEHOUSE STATION STREATHAM 292 (REAR-OF) STREATHAM HIGH ST, SW16 6HG INFO LINE: 0207 247 5333 www.gaysauna.co.uk REVIEW:ARTS NEWS MUSIC E T H A LT E R N Living your life online is sometimes revealing and It has to be said there’s A T always entertaining, and we all do it to a degree. always something going I V It’s all part and parcel of life in the 21st century. on at the Dalston E Of course there has to be some balance but Superstore (117 E even if you miss out on something in real life you Kingsland Road, E8 2PB) L REV E can always get a glimpse of the moment via your and here’s one that C T social networks. caught my attention: Up R Bourgeois & Yours on Saturday 31st OLT O Maurice present May. With Severino and Severino D Shindig on taking over the I ,M½7IER S AGEC Thursday 29th over basement DJ action, upstairs there’s O at the Ace Hotel’s Nico De Ceglia and Feral is Kinky... Fierce! S C E N basement club space From Vogue Fabrics to ICY Gays and now E (100 Shoreditch High the Barbican Centre (Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS), A Street, E1 6JQ) from Genderf**k on Saturday 7th June celebrates LI U 8pm till 1am. Get Bourgeois & Maurice the weird and the wonderful with an evening that J S there early as I made the is part of The Fashion World of Jean Paul S mistake of missing all the Gaultier exhibition currently on. Starts at 7pm E C action last month, show time starts at 8.30 until till 12 midnight and there will be performance in N I 11pm and this month join Jonbenet Blonde, the shape of Ruth Less, A Man To Pet and a R P Hunt Darton, Brian Lobel, Tim Ten Yen rare appearance from Jeannie Dee... More to and Jonny Woo for a star-studded lineup. 12” be announced. DJs The Lovely of Pleasure play the DJ set as well! Jonjo, Cozette from All over the internet, and now on telly, Sibling Knitwear and Lady Lloyd teams up with fellow Love Mag’s Jack legend Tasty Tim for their new Sunnucks... night Bombshell on Friday 30th plus myself. And May at the aptly named Tart Bar... ½PQMRWXEPPEXMSR (117 Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6AA.) from Sharna They say, ‘Club kids, trannies and Osbourne, this The Lovely Jonjo kooks unite, gonna be a Bombshell evening is well and tonight!’ Better get down there truly packed full of Lady Lloyd & Tasty Tim then! 10pm till 4am. delights! MARIAH TAKES US HIGHER Summer, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, and handful of others. These are women who set the benchmark for female vocalists. Mariah is, of course, amongst that honourable roll call. BY CLIFF JOANNOU Then at the beginning of the ‘00s along came Auto-Tune and then EDM, which killed the music industry’s appreciation of the popular singer. (How the hell do you think Britney was ever allowed into a recording studio?) We’re thankfully – slowly – moving out of that ‘phase’ and music with genuine melodies and less electronic QERMTYPEXMSRMW½REPP]QEOMRKEGSQIFEGO Of course, away from the horrors of EDM, there are some sensational female vocalists that have made the headlines over recent years: Florence Welch sends shivers down the spine with every note; Amy Winehouse reignited our appreciation of vintage soul; Beyonce combines powerhouse vocals with adrenaline-infused performance; Taylor Swift still bores me to the point of slitting my wrists, even if she does have an impressive voice. This week, nearly 25 years into her career, Mariah reminds the world that she’s not ready to hand over the diva crown just yet. This latest VIPIEWI[EPOWWSQI[LIVIFIX[IIRTEWXEPFYQW&YXXIV¾]ERH8LI Emancipation of Mimi, but veers to a more retro vibe. It’s her most consistent album yet. It’s classic Mariah as she sang on ‘Vision of Love’, still in the vein of the R’n’B and soul sound she loves so much. The vocal runs are there, the high notes, the whistles. At one moment, letting lose, then reigning it back in. The upbeat tracks are the highlight REAL divas are a rare thing these days. In the history of popular here, I have them on repeat. But of course I do, I’m a manic fan. But culture, that tag gets thrown around faster than Rihanna sheds her EJXIVEGSYTPISJEPFYQWMR[LMGLWLIWXVYKKPIHXSVIHM½RILIVTPEGIMR TERXMIWJSVEWIP½I2S[JSVKIXXLIGSRXIQTSVEV]GIPIFVMX]WGEVVMRK TSTERH½ZI]IEVWWMRGILIVPEWXVIPIEWIXLIIPYWMZIGLERXIYWIMWFEGO of that term in which Kim Kardashian sells her soul to E! for a few ERHMX´WSRISJLIV½RIWXGSPPIGXMSRW]IX mega-bucks. (If she ever auctions that stupid wedding dress, I’m going to sell everything I own to buy it, empty my bowels all over it On repeat: Cry, Faded, Dedicated, Thirsty, Make It Look Good, You and send it back to Kimye by Fed-Ex.) Don’t Know What To Do, Meteorite, Money ($*/…), #Beautiful, 2SJSVKIXthose trash-mag divas. In music terms, a real diva is a The Art Of Letting Go small pantheon of female artists (and Elton John) who are, primarily, legendary singers. Think Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Donna Skip:7YTIVREXYVEP'EQSY¾EKI3RI1SVI8V],IEZIRP] 46 YOUR GUIDE TO THE WEEK'S BEST BAR MAYBES CLUB CABARET EVENTS IN LONDON MUSTSFULL LISTINGS AVAILABLE AT WWW.QXMAGAZINE.COM THURSDAY 29TH MAY G-A-Y Porn Idol at Heaven, Villiers fiercely social, sexy club spot, playing bar. TONIGHT: Enriched with DJ Street, WC2N 6NG. 11pm-4am. edgy and upfront house. Expect hot Rich B. CLUBS & EVENTS Discount wristbands from G-A-Y Bar. gogo eye candy and hosted by fab Comptons of Soho at 51-53 Old David Hoyle’s Still Life at RVT, 372 The biggest amateur strip contest in scene faces. Get snapped by the Compton Street, Soho, W1D 6HN. Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 town is back! Win £100 on the night legendary resident papper! 12pm-midnight. One of Soho’s best 5HY. Doors 7pm. Show 8.30pm. and maybe £1,000 in the Final. Plus, Babylon at Manbar, 79 Charing Cross loved traditional gay pubs, always £10. David Hoyle presents a series hot pop spun across the venue. To Road, Soho, WC2H 0NE. 10pm-3am. busy and always friendly and always of conversation based performances compete text 07789 553 868 or email Free. Bringing the deep house vibe fun. exploring spirituality, art, academia, [email protected] to the party boys of Soho. Guest DJs Two Brewers, 114 Clapham High queer history and more. TONIGHT: Dirty Disko at Barcode, 69 Albert spin the sounds at the butch bar. Street, SW4 7UJ. Bar open 4pm-2am. David Hoyle meets Ireland’s Embankment, Vauxhall, SE1 7TP. FREE b4 10pm, £3 after. Popular legendary Panti Bliss. 10pm-5am. £5. DJs Alex Georgiou South London cabaret/club spot. and Steven Artis and friends play TONIGHT: Cabaret from lady Imelda. the dirty disco sounds at Vauxhall Ow’Zat at The Joiners Arms, 116 industrial Barcode club spot. Hackney Road, E2 7QL. 10.30pm-3am. G-A-Y Late at 5 Goslett Yard, Free entry before 11.30pm, £5 after off Charing Cross Road, WC2. 11.30pm. This pub is one of the most 11pm-3am. Hot pop sounds get legendary gay venues in all of London – played out across the club, drink find out why tonight for R’n’B, disco and specials, cute guys and an almost house courtesy of DJ Jeffrey Hinton. unrivalled highly electric atmosphere. Open 7 days. Thursgays at East Bloc, 217 City FRIDAY 30TH MAY Road, Shoreditch, EC1V 1JN. 10.30pm-late. Midnight Yeast Cabaret CLUBS & EVENTS deliver a performance by Oozing G-A-Y Camp Attack with Denise Gloop, Lewis Burton and Rodent Pearson at Heaven, Villiers Street, Decay with tunes by resident DJs WC2N 6NG. 11pm-4am. FREE with playing pop, dance, R’n’B, disco and wristband from G-A-Y Bar. Main Floor electro. Ted’s TV/TS Night at Ted’s Place, plays 70s, 80s, 90s, 00 & 01, Star Bar Ku Klub at Ku Bar Lisle Street, Leicester 305a North End Road. 7pm-2am. £5. is 02 to present day, videos in the Pop Square, WC2. 6pm-3am. FREE. The The night for fellas in frocks and their Room. Musical theme sing-along in the legendary Tasty Tim and guests spin the admirers. Departure Lounge. TONIGHT: Five Star pop sounds and floor fillers. Cruise Control at Eagle, 349 lead singer Denise Pearson takes to the Room Service at Miabella, 12-13 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 stage. Panti Bliss Greek Street, Soho, W1D 4DJ. 5QY. 9pm-late. £6 entry, includes Bump at Rise, 1 Leicester Square, 10pm-3am. Don’t you dare miss this first drink and coat check. Cruise Soho, WC2H 7NA. 10pm-3am. £10. spaces to explore with darker, deeper ID required for entry. Towering over beats to play to. central London with views across the city. Commercial house sounds from BARS & CABARET DJs Gretta Gargola, Brent Nicholls Kazbar at 50 Clapham High Street, and Ale Amarel play the tunes. Hosted SW4 7UL. 4pm-3am. Free. Funky by Chrissy Darling. Clapham bar with stylish swish. Nancy’s at Dalston Superstore, TONIGHT: Funky house from DJ 117 Kingsland High St, E8 2PB. Norbert M. 9pm-4am. Free b4 11pm/£5 after. Gossip at West 5, Pope’s Lane, Weekly night of regular resident DJs South Ealing, W5 4NB. Open from spinnin’ up a storm of top deck disco 8pm. FREE. Ealing’s hugely popular house and hot tracks to shack out to. club, bar and cabaret spot. TONIGHT: Backing The Stars at Halfway 2 Spunk at Manbar, 79 Charing Cross Heaven, 7 Duncannon Street, Charing Road, Soho, WC2H 0NE. 10pm-3am. Cross, WC2N 4JF. Long running Free b4 11pm. Start the weekend with popular central London cabaret pub a bang. Commercial dance remixes with Kevin Walsh. from DJs Amos, Rob C and Brent VS at Circa, 62 Frith Street, Soho, Nicholls. W1. 4pm-4am. Munroe Bergdorf and Super Electric Party Machine at Adam Turner get you warmed up for East Bloc, 217-219 City Road, EC1V Room Service with some unrivalled 1JN. 10pm-6am. Free before 12am Thursday night hotness! with flyer, £5 before 12am with free Rupert Street at 50 Rupert Street, drink, £8 before 1am with free drink, Soho, W1D 6DR. From 8pm. Weekly £10 after. Freshest, hottest talent dance session at the popular Soho playing the best new music with DJ 48 FOR LISTINGS ON THE GO, DOWNLOAD THE FREE 'QX GAY LONDON' APP AT THE ITUNES STORE Larry Tee and guests at this hot-ass £5 after 10pm. London’s legendary Camp As Hits at The City of Quebec, Stuart, Eagle becomes a maze of male East London basement club spot. cabaret and club bar. TONIGHT: 12 Old Quebec Street, Marble Arch, primal pleasures. TONIGHT: Cockheart Boys, Ursula Cabaret from The Drag With No W1H 7AF. 10pm-3am. Venerable Up Yours #2 at Dalston Superstore, Snakes and Fifi LaTruz. Name. institution of the gay scene rocks out 117 Kingsland High Street, E8 2PB. Ku Klub at Ku Bar Lisle Street at 30 The Yard at 57 Rupert Street, Soho, some pop classics for an evening 8pm-3am. FREE b4 10pm/£5 after. Lisle Street, Leicester Square, WC2. W1D 7PL. Open till 12am. FREE. of fun. Hifi Sean and Severino are back for 10pm-3am. FREE b4 11pm, £5 after. Renowned as one of Soho’s most Round 2 of their joint project Up Pop perfection and hot floor fillers unique and popular destination venues, Yours! After a roadblock party last as Ku’s hot 3 spin the tunes in its with a huge outdoor terrace. SATURDAY 31ST MAY year, they return with Feral is Kinky downstairs basement club spot. Kazbar at 50 Clapham High Street, and Nico De Ceglia on the decks. STP 1st Birthday at Vogue Fabrics, SW4 7UL. 4pm-3am. Free. Funky CLUBS & EVENTS 66 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, Clapham bar with stylish swish. G-A-Y presents Demi Lovato at N16 7XB. 10pm-3am. £5. All out TONIGHT: DJ Eduardo Herrera. PA by Heaven, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NG. hip-hop and R’n’B as the STP Boys Marcella Woods. 10pm-5am. Discount wristbands celebrate the 1st birthday. Special The Black Cap at 171 Camden High available from G-A-Y Bar. The palace guest Mischa Mafia. Street, NW1 7JY. 10pm-3am. Party of pop and quite possibly the world’s Yes at The Joiners Arms, 116- rocking Camden pub delivers premier most famous gay club packs out this 118 Hackney Road, E2 7QL. cabaret and entertainment. TONIGHT: cavernous venue. TONIGHT: American 11.30pm-4am. FREE b4 11pm/£5 Entertainment from DownGirls NW1. pop sensation Demi Lovato performs. after. Packing them into the East Bridge Phenomenon at The Bridge XXL - Retro at Pulse, 1 Invicta Plaza, London dance and drink spot every Bar at 8 Voltaire Road, Clapham, SW4 South Bank, SE1 9UF. 8pm-8am. £8 Friday. TONIGHT: DJ Rob Sykes. 6DH. 5pm-2am. DJ Pete Spirko spins members, £15 guests. £5 after 4am. Fitladz at Barcode, 69 Albert the sounds at Clapham’s newest funky 4 huge arenas, a mega cruise space Embankment, Vauxhall, SE1 7TP. gay bar. and chill space. Plus, big tunes from 10pm-8am. £8 members, £10 guests. Discipline at Circa, 62 Frith Street, resident DJs Christian M, Alex Logan, The club session for horny lads with Soho, W1D 3JN. 4pm-1am. Soho’s Joe Egg, Andy Almighty and Stewart hot grooves from the DJs and an intimate but packed-out bar/club spot Styles. TONIGHT: Classic tunes mixed extended cruise space. watches Munroe Bergdorf and friends in with current smashes for another Tonker at Eagle London, 349 werq the floor! Retro special. Feral Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 Central Station at 37 Wharfdale Members at East Bloc, 217 City ZigZag Samstag at Resistance 5QY. 9pm-3am. FREE b4 10pm, £6 Road, Kings Cross, N1 9SD. Open ‘til Road, Shoreditch, EC1V 1JN. Gallery, Poyser Street, Bethnal Green, after. Big bear bar boozing, cruise 4am. FREE entry. Cabaret and DJs ‘til 10.30pm-6am. £7 b4 12/£9 after. E2 9RF. 10pm-3am. £5. Return of and tunes has disco, house & soul, late. TONIGHT: Entertainment from Germany’s hot and sexy house and the hot gay techno party that’s been then sexier vibes to the early hours Ima Castro. techno party that gets all the boys causing a fuss due to the quality for hot daddies, bears, cubs and their Friday Night Live with Myra excited in Berlin lands in London for sounds and hot crowd. Music from admirers. TONIGHT: Tonker Bearfest Dubois at Halfway 2 Heaven, 7 its debut party… and where else, Craig Campbell and Greg Lowe. Don’t Party with resident DJ Tim Jones Duncannon Street, Charing Cross, but at East Bloc? Members DJs Marc miss it. raising funds for the Ben Cohen WC2N 4JF. 9pm-3am. The central Miroir and Handmade join Borja Pena Hombre at Manbar, 79 Charing Cross StandUp Foundation. London cabaret hot spot. TONIGHT: and Jonjo Jury. Road, Soho, WC2H 0NE. 10pm-3am. G-A-Y Late at 5 Goslett Yard, Myra with special guest Martha JagerNacht (Hunt Night) at Eagle Free b4 11pm/£3 after. Weekly off Charing Cross Road, WC2. D’Arthur. London, 349 Kennington Lane, SE11 pre-party for Beyond afterhours with 7.30pm-3am. Hot pop sounds, drink West 5 at South Ealing, Pope’s Lane, 5QY. 9pm-4am. £6 after. It’s hunting tunes by Gretta Gargola and Beyond’s specials, cute guys and a pop perfect W5 4NB. The popular West London season at Eagle as predatory hunters resident guest DJs. atmosphere. club, bar and cabaret spot, with added are out for otters, bears, cubs, wolves Pantastic at The Joiners Arms, Own It at Disco, 13 Kingly Court, Piano Lounge fun. TONIGHT: Cabaret and other animals. Hosted by Alan 116-118 Hackney Road, E2 7QL. W1B 5PW. 9pm-3am. A new party from Divina de Campo. for hot house and thumping disco for The Victoria at 186 Hoe Street, Friday nights in Soho from Fat Tony Walthamstow, E17. Open ‘til 3am. and special guests. Lively East End pub features karaoke A:M (afterhours) at Protocol, South every Friday! Lambeth Road, SW8 1RT. 1am White Swan, 556 Commercial Road, (Saturday morning)-11am. £12. The Limehouse, E14 7JD. 9pm-3am. A original Saturday morning afterhours legendary East End gay pub with a beast that continues to light up the wild atmosphere, sexy lads and great weekend ahead of the rest churns out entertainment on the stage. TONIGHT: the turbocharged house sounds. Cabaret from Cookiemonstar. Comptons of Soho at 51-53 Old BARS & CABARET Compton Street, Soho, W1D 6HN. Ku Bar Frith Street, 25 Frith Street, 12pm-2am. The grand dame of Soho. WC1D 5LB. Open ‘til 3am. Ku Bar’s TONIGHT: DJ Lee Harris. little brother stretches across two Rupert Street at 50 Rupert Street, floors for that perfect Soho warm-up Soho, W1D 6DR. Open ‘til 1am. drinking session and a little dance Soho’s sexy bar is ready to shine with downstairs DJs. again with weekly DJ sets to get you The Edge at 11 Soho Square, Soho, in the weekend mood! W1D 3QE. 12noon-3am. FREE b4 Sauna Bar at 29 Endell Street, 10.30pm. Four floors of fun! Top Covent Garden, WC2H 9BA. tunes from the DJs spinning top 40, 11.30am-2am. £16. £5 off entry with pop, funky house and more. QX advert. The only licensed gay The Two Brewers at 114 Clapham sauna in the West End, open ‘til super High Street, SW4 7UJ. 5pm-4am. late every weekend. 49 FOR LISTINGS ON THE GO, DOWNLOAD THE FREE QX GAY LONDON APP AT THE ITUNES STORE 11pm-3am. FREE b4 11pm/£5 after. Pick N Mix at The City of Quebec, The Yard at 57 Rupert Street, Soho, DJ Mista Pierre plays the sounds of 12 Old Quebec Street, Marble Arch, W1D 7PL. Open till 12am. FREE. the capital at the original East London W1H 7AF. Top tunes and late night Renowned as one of Soho’s most club spot. fun at the legendary gay boozer near unique and popular destination venues, Galacticia – Official Matmos after- Marble Arch. with terrific outdoor space. party at Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Central Station at 37 Wharfdale Ku Bar Frith Street, 25 Frith Street, Newington Road, Dalston, N16 7XB. Road, Kings Cross, N1 9SD. Open ‘til WC1D 5LB. Open ‘til 3am. Ku Bar’s 10pm-3am. £5. QBoy and David Oh 4am. FREE b4 10pm. Cabaret then little brother stretches across three play the best deep and alternative DJs ‘til late. TONIGHT: Cabaret from floors for that perfect Soho warm-up R’n’B, rap and electronica with guest Davina Sparkle. drinking session and a cheeky dance set from Soft Pink Truth. The Two Brewers at 114 Clapham with downstairs DJs. Duckie at RVT, 372 Kennington High Street, SW4 7UJ. 5pm-4am. Circa at 62 Frith Street, Soho, W1D Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 5HY. 9pm-2am. FREE b4 10pm, £7 after. Cabaret and 3JN. 4pm-1am. Soho’s intimate but £6. Authentic London club/ clubbing ‘til late at the famous venue. packed-out bar/club spot with the entertainment nighter. Hosted by Amy TONIGHT: Cabaret from Cassidy most amazing DJ booth in town! Lamé, record players Readers Wifes. Connors. The Edge at 11 Soho Square, Soho, The Riverside Tavern at 8 Canal Ku Bar at Ku Bar Lisle Street, W1D 3QE. 12noon-3am. FREE b4 Road, Strood, Kent, ME2 4DR. One Chinatown, WC2H 7BA. 6pm-3am. 10.30pm. Open super-late with DJs of Kent’s premier gay venues holds One of London’s hottest gay bars spinning upfront vocal house, with hot another big Saturday night bash. and clubs, with the hottest boys gogo dancers gyrating away as Felicia Ku Klub at Ku Bar Lisle Street at 30 both behind the bar and in front of it, Van Cartier exudes fabulousness. Lisle Street, Leicester Square, WC2. stretching over three floors. 10pm-3am. FREE b4 11pm, £5 after. Comptons of Soho at 51-53 Old £3 with wristband/membership. The Compton Street, Soho, W1D 6HN. SUNDAY 1ST JUNE party continues in Ku’s basement club 12pm-2am. The grand dame of Soho with hot pop and floor fillers from pulling in a more blokey crowd. CLUBS & EVENTS the DJs. TONIGHT: Cabaret from Tasty Tim. Ku Klub at Ku Bar Lisle Street at 30 G-A-Y Late at 5 Goslett Yard, Kazbar at 50 Clapham High Street, Lisle Street, Leicester Square, WC2. off Charing Cross Road, WC2. SW4 7UL. 4pm-3am. Free entry. 10pm-3am. The party continues in 11pm-3am. Hot pop sounds, drink Funky Clapham bar with stylish swish. Ku’s basement club with hot pop and specials, cute guys and a pop perfect TONIGHT: DJ Paul Morrell. floor fillers from the DJ Lady Lloyd. atmosphere. Rupert Street at 50 Rupert Street, TONIGHT: Bank Holiday special with Sweatbox Foam Party at 1-2 Soho, W1D 6DR. Open ‘til 1am. Kick Ku Klub open until 3am! Ramilies Street, Soho, W1F 7LN. 24 Saturday night off with sounds from SPQR at The Joiners Arms, 116-118 hours. £16. Unwind and release some the hottest DJs at this lively Soho bar. Hackney Road, E2 7QL. 10pm-late. tension after a stressy week with the G-A-Y Bar at 30 Old Compton Street, FREE b4 11pm/£6 after. DJ Romano all the fun of the foam at Sweatbox’s Soho, W1D 4UR. Midday-Midnight. plays the sounds out for the Sunday original weekly party. FREE. Soho’s palace of pop with the crowd at the bustling Joiners. Unchill at Barcode, 69 Albert hottest videos screened out across Sundays at the RVT at RVT, Embankment, Vauxhall, SE1 7TP. 6am the venue, great drinks deals and 372 Kennington Lane, SE11 5HY. (Sunday morning) -midday. £10 full, discount entry wrist bands for G-A-Y 2pm-midnight. £6. The afternoon/ £8 concessions, £6 pre-sale tickets. @ Heaven. evening clubbing session slot Carry the clubbing experience on with The Old Ship at 17 Barnes Street, playing huge dance anthems and Marco Gee, Stevie B, Nico de Ceglia, Limehouse, E14 7NW. 8pm-late. commercial house. Plus, multi-media Michael Mileti, Laris Alexander and Local gay bar in East London’s entertainment from Charlie Hides TV a special performance from Tonnic, Limehouse. TONIGHT: Cabaret from at 5.30pm. plus a live body-painting session by The Miss Jason Show (9.30pm). Horse Meat Disco at Eagle London, Ian Massa-Harris. Hosted by Greg The Victoria at 186 Hoe Street, 349 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, Owen. Walthamstow, E17. Open ‘til 3am. SE11 5QY. 8pm-4am. £8. The Beyond (afterhours) at Area, 66-67 Free b4 9.30pm, £5 after. Lively East HMD gymkhana continues to shake Albert Embankment, Vauxhall, SE1 End pub that turns extra flamboyant Vauxhall down every week. Residents 7TP. 3am (Sunday morning)-late. The on the weekends! TONIGHT: Cabaret spin super-disco sounds with weekly crazy club beast takes it up a notch from The Drag With No Name. guests. with this late night/early morning Saunabar at 29 Endell Street, Covent G-A-Y Late at 5 Goslett Yard, house music session. Garden, WC2H 9BA. 11.30am-2am. off Charing Cross Road, WC2. £16. £5 off entry with QX advert. 11pm-3am. Hot pop sounds get BARS & CABARET Unwind after a night of clubbing at played out across the club, drink Trannyshack at The Black Cap, the only licensed gay sauna in the specials, cute guys and an almost 171 Camden High Street, NW1 West End. unrivalled highly electric atmosphere. 7JY. 9pm-3am. £5 after 10pm. £7 West 5 at South Ealing, Pope’s Lane, after midnight. Dusty O hosts this W5 4NB. The popular West London BARS & CABARET legendary TV/TS/gay and admirers club, bar and cabaret spot, with added Jimmy’s at East Bloc, 217 City Road, night, with Danny Stafford, Lady Lloyd Piano Lounge fun. TONIGHT: Cabaret Shoreditch, EC1V 1JN. 9pm-4am. and Tasty Tim on the decks. from Mary Mac. £5 includes first free drink. Cabaret, Saturday Market + Bears White Swan, 556 Commercial Road, disco and a big meat-rack, too! Trindy Downstairs at Halfway 2 Heaven, 7 Limehouse, E14 7JD. 9pm-3am. A and Baga Chipz present cabaret at the Duncannon St, WC2N 4JF. Open ‘til legendary East End gay pub with a ‘Bloc starring Holestar, Sandra, Fred 3am. Cabaret fun times from Rose wild atmosphere, sexy lads and great & Isla and Los Scruffalo’s. Garden at 4pm. Bears go down with entertainment on the stage. West 5 at Pope’s Lane, South Ealing, the gruff guys and Justin Swift. TONIGHT: Cabaret from Lady La Rue. W5 4NB. Open from 7pm. FREE. FULL LISTINGS AVAILABLE AT WWW.QXMAGAZINE.COM 50 FULL LISTINGS AVAILABLE AT WWW.QXMAGAZINE.COM Disco with Aaron from 10.30pm. Cross Road, Soho, WC2H 0NE. going with this karaoke weekly. Kazbar Doggy Style at 50 Clapham Happy hour all night. TONIGHT: 9pm-3am. Free. Bear Quarterly UK Two Brewers at 114 Clapham High High Street, SW4 7UL. 4pm-3am. Cookie’s Karaoke. Launch Party with Tom Goss goes Street, SW4 7UJ. The landmark Free. Don’t leave Scooby at home! The The Edge at 11 Soho Square, Soho, live! Top DJs, happy sounds, all-star- south London cabaret, bar and club. Clapham bar invites all puppy lovers to W1D 3QE. 3pm-11.30pm. Soho’s cabaret, hot’n’hairy gogos and drinks TONIGHT: Mrs Moore’s weekly bring their pooch to Kazbar and mingle multi-floored gay wonder, which every specials! Monday cabaret session. with other doggies! Water bowls and gay man of London needs to visit at Popcorn – Honey Trap at Karaoke at The City of Quebec, 12 treats provided. least once! Heaven, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NG. Old Quebec Street, Marble Arch, W1H Tiffaney Wells Double Thrill at Rupert Street at 50 Rupert Street, 11pm-5.30am. £4 b4 1am, £5 after, 7AF. Steve Tee hosts the singing fun The City of Quebec, 12 Old Quebec Soho, W1D 6DR. Chic Soho bar with £8 after 2am. FREE with wristbands at the famous gay boozer in Marble Street, Marble Arch, W1H 7AF. The ambient beats and brilliant drinks. from G-A-Y Bar b4 1am. Massive Arch. legendary gay pub in the heart of TONIGGHT: DJ Gretta – open late ‘til mixed mash-up with four rooms of So You Think You Can Sing! at London. Tiffaney Wells presents two midnight! top sounds, from upfront, progressive Kazbar, 50 Clapham High Street, shows at 9pm and 10pm. Halfway 2 Heaven at 7 Duncannon house to chart hits, via R&B tuneage. SW4 7UL. Showtime 7pm. Donovan Street, Charing Cross, WC2N 4JF. Perfect polysexual party to start presents a night of song and fun with Open ‘til 11pm. Long running popular the week as you mean to go on. pianist sensation Eric Robinson at WEDNESDAY 4TH JUNE Central London cabaret pub. DJ TONIGHT: The Honey Trap - worth Claphams friendly, funky gay bar. David Robson from 3.30pm with CK, getting caught in. The Old Ship at 17 Barnes Street, CLUBS & EVENTS followed by An Evening With Mrs Ku Klub at Ku Bar Lisle Street, 30 Limehouse, E14 7NW. Local gay bar Misfits – 1st Birthday at East Bloc, Moore and Tanya Hyde. Lisle Street, WC2. 10pm-3am. FREE. in East London’s Limehouse. 217-219 City Road, EC1V 1JN. The Black Cap at 171 Camden High DJs play the weekend out on a wave Rupert Street at 50 Rupert Street, 10pm-3.30am. FREE b4 11pm/£5 Street, NW1 7JY. 7pm-late. £5. The of hot pop. Soho, W1D 6DR. The trendy Soho after. Midweek urban glamour as long-running cabaret, club and pub G-A-Y Late at 5 Goslett Yard, drinking spot celebrates with 2-4-1 R’n’B scene star Mark-Ashley Dupé nestled in the heart of Camden. of Charing Cross Road, WC2. classic cocktails all day! presents his ghetto fabulous in the The Two Brewers at 114 Clapham 11pm-3am. Late night dancing spot infamous basement of debauchery. High Street, SW4 7UJ. 4pm-2am. for pure-pop enthusiasts doing the With DJs Jeffrey Hinton and Nasty FREE b4 8pm, £3 after. South funky chickens. TUESDAY 3RD JUNE McQuaid. TONIGHT: The bad boys London’s legendary cabaret, club and Hard-Up Mondays at Sweatbox, and big bitches celebrate one year of pub. TONIGHT: Triple cabaret with The 1-2 Ramilies Street, Soho, W1F 7LN. CLUBS & EVENTS misadventures. Power of 3! 24 hours. Under 25s FREE all day, Cruise Control at Eagle, 349 CLiCK at Union, 66 Albert The Old Ship at 17 Barnes Street, £16 others. Finding Mondays hard to Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 Embankment, Vauxhall, SE1 7TP. Limehouse, E14 7NW. 8pm-midnight. handle? Relieve the pressure with this 5QY. 9pm-late. £6 entry, includes 11pm-4am £5 w. QX ad, £8 others. Free. Local gay bar in East London’s specially discounted day for under first drink and coat check. Cruise Urban polysexual party playing R‘n’B, Limehouse. 25s (ID required) at Soho’s only gay spaces to explore with darker, deeper hip-hop, bashment, Afrobeats, funky, Cabaret Sundays at The Riverside sauna. beats to play to. old skool, garage and house in Room Tavern, 8 Canal Road, Strood, Kent, Desire at Union, 66 Albert G-A-Y Late at 5 Goslett Yard, 1. Meanwhile, it’s pure house music ME2 4DR. From 9pm. FREE. One of Embankment, Vauxhall, SE1. 3am off Charing Cross Road, WC2. over in Room 2. Kent’s premier gay venues presents (Tuesday morning) – 11am. £5 before 11pm-3am. The weekend begins early XXL at Pulse, 1 Invicta Plaza, South weekly cabaret. 5am with this listing. Progressive, or finishes late to a melodious mix of Bank, SE1 9UF. 9pm-3am. Members Julez @ Jenna at The Bridge Bar at tech, tribal, electro and deep house classic chart pop and current hits. free, others £3. Midweek, dance, 8 Voltaire Road, Clapham, SW4 6DH. with DJs Steven Geller, Alan K, Bruno booze and cruise at the world famous From 7pm. Performing their musical Nouer and Julia Nouer. BARS & CABARET club for hunks, chunks, bears and numbers with the odd dirty version Cruise Control at Eagle, 349 Spotlight at Manbar, 79 Charing admirers. thrown in to spice it up. Followed Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 Cross Road, Soho, WC2H 0NE. by Karaoke Sunday, hosted by John 5QY. 9pm-late. £6 entry, includes 9pm-3am. Free b4 11pm. Shevlin and Mark Apples. first drink and coat check. Cruise Showcasing talent, from singers to Molly Moggs at 2 Old Compton spaces to explore with darker, deeper burlesque, via artists and comedians Street, Soho, W1D 4TA. From 2pm. beats to play to. and fire eaters. Hosted by Topsie FREE. Dame Julie Paid entertains the Redfern. Produced by Duncan Day. guests at this intimate Soho boozer. BARS & CABARET Karaoke Tuesdays at The Bridge The City of Quebec at 12 Old Man Health at Manbar, 79 Charing Bar at 8 Voltaire Road, Clapham, Quebec Street, Marble Arch, W1H Cross Road, Soho, WC2H 0NE. SW4 6DH. From 7.30pm. It’s all 7AF. Legendary gay boozer near 5pm-8.30pm. FREE. Sexual Health about having fun and performing at Marble Arch features weekly cabaret. Clinic 56 Dean Street provide this free The Bridge’s weekly sing-out sesh. TONIGHT: Cabaret from Sandra. and confidential HIV and sexual health Hosted by Mark Apples. Comptons of Soho at 51-53 Old testing clinic. 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Bar £2.50 on popular drinks presents bonkers bingo. presents an eclectic mix of music MONDAY 2ND JUNE from 5pm. Cookie Monstar at Molly Moggs, 2 from his vast collection, from rare Backing The Stars at Halfway 2 Old Compton Street, Soho, W1D 4TA. B-sides to other special gems from CLUBS & EVENTS Heaven, 7 Duncannon St. WC2. 8.30pm. FREE. Song and sinful fun disco, nu wave, indie, northern soul Cub Club at Manbar, 79 Charing 7.30pm. Kevin Walsh gets the pub from Cookie. and more. FULL LISTINGS AVAILABLE AT WWW.QXMAGAZINE.COM 51 FOR LISTINGS ON THE GO, DOWNLOAD THE FREE QX GAY LONDON APP AT THE ITUNES STORE Cruise Control at Eagle, 349 Wednesday Naughties at Central unrivalled highly electric atmosphere. Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, SE11 Station, 37 Wharfdale Road, Kings Open 7 days. 5QY. 9pm-late. £6 entry, includes Cross N1 9SD. 10pm. FREE. Excellent Thursgays at East Bloc, 217 City first drink and coat check. Cruise cabaret to fire up your Wednesday Road, Shoreditch, EC1V 1JN. spaces to explore with darker, deeper evenings. Hosted by Cookie Monstar. 10.30pm-late. Midnight Yeast Cabaret beats to play to. Come Mime With Me at Halfway II deliver a performance by Oozing Ku Klub at Ku Bar Lisle Street, 30 Heaven, 7 Duncannon Street, Charing Gloop, Lewis Burton and Rodent Lisle Street, WC2. 10pm-3am. FREE. Cross, WC2N 4JF. From 9pm. Mitzi Decay with tunes by resident DJs The party continues ‘til late in the Ku Macintosh hosts Halfway’s mime playing pop, dance, R’n’B, disco and basement. night special. electro. Foam Party at Sweatbox, 1-2 Ku Klub at Ku Bar Lisle Street, Ramilies Street, Soho, W1F 7LN. Leicester Square, WC2. 6pm-3am. 24 hours. £16. If you can’t make the THURSDAY 5TH JUNE FREE. The legendary Tasty Tim and weekend wet fun, why not head down guests spin the pop sounds and floor 12 Old Quebec Street tonight? Relieve the midweek stress! CLUBS & EVENTS fillers. Marble Arch, London W1H 7AF The foam flies at 7, 8 and 9pm. Babylon at Manbar, 79 Charing Cross Room Service at Miabella, 12-13 TEL: 020 7629 6159 Road, Soho, WC2H 0NE. 10pm-3am. Greek Street, Soho, W1D 4DJ. BARS & CABARET Free. Bringing the deep house vibe 10pm-3am. Don’t you dare miss this EVERY FRI & SAT The Old Ship at 17 Barnes Street, to the party boys of Soho. Guest DJs fiercely social, sexy club spot, playing Limehouse, E14 7NW. Quiz from spin the sounds at the butch bar. edgy and upfront house. Expect hot 10pm ‘til 3am 9.30pm. Local gay bar in East Ted’s TV/TS Night at Ted’s Place, gogo eye candy and hosted by fab London’s Limehouse. 305a North End Road. 7pm-2am. £5. scene faces. Get snapped by the Camp As Hits Detained at Circa, 62 Frith Street, The night for fellas in frocks and their legendary resident papper! Soho, W1D 3JN. Open ‘til 1am. Circa admirers. 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Ealing’s hugely popular 9pm Comptons of Soho at 51-53 Old Embankment, Vauxhall, SE1 7TP. club, bar and cabaret spot. Compton Street, Soho, W1D 6HN. 10pm-5am. £5. DJs Alex Georgiou Backing The Stars at Halfway 2 12pm-11.30pm. Super social pub and Steven Artis and friends play Heaven, 7 Duncannon Street, Charing downstairs, more chilled club lounge the dirty disco sounds at Vauxhall Cross, WC2N 4JF. Long running upstairs with guest pianist tinkling industrial Barcode club spot. popular central London cabaret pub the ivories. G-A-Y Late at 5 Goslett Yard, with Kevin Walsh. Two Brewers at 114 Clapham High off Charing Cross Road, WC2. VS at Circa, 62 Frith Street, Soho, Cabaret Street, SW4 7UJ. FREE b4 10pm, £3 11pm-3am. Hot pop sounds get W1. 4pm-4am. Munroe Bergdorf and after. South London’s famous bar/ played out across the club, drink Adam Turner get you warmed up for SANDRA club. specials, cute guys and an almost Room Service with some unrivalled Thursday night hotness! EVERY MONDAY Vanity Von Glow’s Cocktails in The 9pm Ray Noir Shufflewick Bar at The Black Cap, 171 Camden High Street, NW1 7JY. The popular Camden cabaret, pub and club hosts a new night of drag HOSTED BY and drink. With special guest Silver STEVE TEE Summers. Rupert Street at 50 Rupert Street, TUESDAYS Soho, W1D 6DR. From 8pm. Weekly 9pm & 10pm dance session at the popular Soho bar. TONIGHT: Enriched with DJ Rich B. Comptons of Soho at 51-53 Old Compton Street, Soho, W1D 6HN. 12pm-midnight. One of Soho’s best Double Bubble loved traditional gay pubs, always busy and always friendly and always OPENING HOURS fun. MON-THURS 12PM-2AM Two Brewers, 114 Clapham FRI-SAT 12PM-3AM High Street, SW4 7UJ. Bar open SUN 12PM-1AM 4pm-2am. FREE b4 10pm, £3 after. Popular South London cabaret/club NEAREST TUBE: MARBLE ARCH spot. 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It was way too late for PEP, and so I have to just sit and wait to test. My boyfriend is being amazing….I told him that a condom broke. But should I be worried or do you think I will be ok? I feel really down about the whole thing. Thanks, Andy Hi Andy, Drugs are the commonest reason why guys have unprotected sex and the continuing rise of HIV in London is thought, by many, to be largely due to the increase in drug-fuelled sex parties. These are high risk situations as judgement goes out the window when you are high and the opportunity to have sex with multiple partners just increases the chances that you will pick up or pass something on. PRESS RELEASES INTERNET DESIGN You don’t say if you were active or passive and that’s important as [email protected] If6was9design.com the risk of picking up HIV is quite different. The risk of picking up EDITOR PHOTOGRAPHER HIV through one episode of being passive with a random guy from CLIFF JOANNOU CHRIS JEPSON London is thought to be about 1 in 1000. If you were active the risk 020 7379 7887 ext 3 [email protected] CLASSIFIEDS is less, at about 1 in 20,000. This may or may not seem a lot to you 020 7379 8040 ERH]SYRIIHXSVIQIQFIVXLIWI½KYVIWEVIEZIV]VSYKLKYMHI ASSISTANT EDITOR classifi[email protected] PATRICK CASH When it comes to having sex with a guy who is known to be positive 020 7379 7887 ext 9 ESCORTS PLEASE CALL the risk increases to 1 in 90 if he fucks you and 1 in 1,600 if you fuck RUSSEL OR MICHAEL: [email protected] LMQ&YXEKEMRXLIWI½KYVIWEVIEKYMHI 020 7379 8040 SALES AND MARKETING The guy you were with does have a point. 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This is EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS medicine you can take to prevent you picking up HIV if you have put ANTHONY GILÉT yourself at risk. This needs to be started as soon as possible – ideally ‘QX Magazine’ @QXMagazine [MXLMREJI[LSYVWFYXHI½RMXIP][MXLMRHE]W-J]SYLEHZMWMXIHER www.qxmagazine.com A+E or sexual health clinic, PEP would have been an option for you. The guy you were with did you no favours by not telling you but you both share the responsibly for having unprotected sex. Overall I TO SUBSCRIBE TO QX CALL think your risk is low but you have to wait until 28 days onward from 020 7379 8040 when you had sex to get your test. £45 FOR 6 MONTHS // £80 FOR 12 MONTHS HIV is the STI most people naturally worry about but there are a WITHIN UK ONLY whole host of other STIs you can pick up and pass on – and most through oral sex which is rarely protected. So, it would make sense © Copyright in the UK and worldwide, of the publishers Firststar Limited, Qx (ISSN 1356-6903). that you have a full sexual health screen when you go to get tested. QX is published every Wednesday. Deadline for editorial and display advertisement inclusion is Thursday, six days before the relevant issue cover date. I’d also advise you speak to a health advisor at the clinic you go to so Sorry, but we cannot be held responsible for any unsolicited manuscripts , illustrations or photographs. you are fully aware of the risks you are taking and why you are taking them, when you have sex outside your relationship. 62